Gate advice
This is probably not the ideal forum to ask a question like this, but I don't know who else to ask, so let your inner handyman suprise me!Today I noticed that the palings of my cheap pine gate are all...
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A couple of leather straps could act as hinges for the short-term fix. - and hammer in a star picket next to the wobbly gate post to stabilise? Don't burn the old gate - give it to the landlords so...
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Can you reinforce it with a few planks in a z shape screwed onto one side? Best if you can put a few screws in it - just on the ends - and then nail the rest of the pailings along the z frame? Agree...
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Maters seem to be the only ones selling cheap galvanised gates. (autocorrect changed cheap to crap, haha!) I'd rather not go there either, but only because they're on the other side of town. Al, the...
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Lin, the gate should be the landlords responsibility shouldn't it? or are you saying that you added the gate because of the dogs, rather than the onwers putting the gate in cos the garden needs one?...
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I rented the house as is, I suppose. I put a bit of fence and gate in because I had to keep my dog in. Al, I am normally also a "if it can't be fixed with gaffa tape it ain't worth fixing" woman. But...
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I'm still not quite sure why you can't just had a few planks to reinforce the gate as it is now, without removing anything? I'm sure I'm missing something ...
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I think I'd need a photo to get my head around the problem ... I just wanted to say that I fix everything with cable ties - they are my favouritest ever.
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The problem is that the gate was originally held together with these very thin headless nails - 3 or 4 close together in each spot where palings were secured to eachother. Most of the palings came...
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Doh! I never thought of putting the palings on the other side! Don't know if it would've worked. But it doesn't matter now.
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I just wanted to brag about the fact that that gate still stands strong and proud, without the need for further repairs since that very stressful day.
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